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["Beth Ellison" <leonardbernst55 AT hotmail.com>]

From a Red Hat investor:

"Why don't you start a big advertising campaign announcing

             *Finally Microsoft is following Redhat*"


> From: Michael S Czeiszperger <czei AT webperformanceinc.com>
> Reply-To: "InterNetWorkers" <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> To: "InterNetWorkers" <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> Subject: [internetworkers] Re: MSFUD
> Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 09:31:39 -0400
>
> On Thursday 03 May 2001 05:01 pm, you wrote:
> > Looks like Microsoft has jumped on the "loudly misunderstand open
> > source" bandwagon.
> >
> >  http://partners.nytimes.com/2001/05/03/technology/03SOFT.html
> >
>
> I take this type of MS campaign has a good sign, that they're being hurt by
> open source. Personally, I'm much more interested in open, public protocols
> than open source, but anything that hurts MS is good for the technology
> industry.
>
> My guess is that MS is worried about the effect that open source is having 
> on
> the developer and business communities. As more software talent is 
> attracted
> towards writing software that runs on other platforms that Windows, the 
> more
> viable the non-Microsoft software solutions become. I don't really think MS
> is worried about the details of the GPL; their main concern is most GPL'd
> software doesn't run on Windows, and that's a bad thing if you depend on a
> monopoly to make money.
>
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> Michael S Czeiszperger
> czei AT webperformanceinc.com
>
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